Official MTB / Mountain Biking Chit Chat

[gdb85]

hpiguy, I'm just poking fun of course (sort of) but in your group pic, riders 1,4 & 5 look like guy's I'd ride with, a little laid back, out to have fun. Riders 2 & 3 look like they take things way too serious and you need to let them know lycra in MTBing is so 1990's. (not cool, lol)

Seriously though it looks like you guys had a great time. We've been riding a couple of 3 times a week. It's so dry & dusty up here, we're in the midst of about a two month stint with hardly any rain. Dirt is almost like concrete, lol.

 

[hpiguy]

^^Good stuff Jeremy!

gdb, LMAO! Riders 2 & 3 are great guys too, but they are both serious athletes fitness wise. They rode three days back to back, and went for runs two of those evenings, got in a car on the third and drove 9 hours back home. I met all those guys riding moto some years back, now we all ride mountain bikes.

 

[OTHGbronco82]

This is bull crap. I want to move to a different town. Some stupid lady was coming up to the turn lane to turn right as I was about half way through the crosswalk. I had pushed the button and the little white man said go for it. She apparently wasn't planning on stopping at the red light like she should. I've had more than one incident with stupid people not looking so I was eyeing the turn lane like always. I see her pull up and she had to brake a little harder than she already was once she saw me. I gave her a glance and kept going while shaking my head. So, she made the turn and yelled something at me to the effect of you should look next time or some bullshit. I yelled back I had the right of way. It's a good thing I know to watch the turn lane and had my gopro on. I'll post the video once I'm done editing. To bad the gopro doesn't have a better mic and sucks at showing distance. End of rant.:roll:

 

[OTHGbronco82]

Here's the video. Just kinda pissed me off.

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[maslin]

Where I come from a bike is a vehicle. As in stay out of the crosswalk and wait at the red light like everyone else.

 

[OTHGbronco82]

Where I come from a bike is a vehicle. As in stay out of the crosswalk and wait at the red light like everyone else.

I'd have been hit along time ago if I would have stuck to that. The driver's around here don't look anyways and just plain don't care. So, it's actually safer on the sidewalk, well at least in my city it is. Plus, I was going from one part of the trail to the other and had no other way to get there other than the cross walk.

 

[gdb85]

Where I come from a bike is a vehicle. As in stay out of the crosswalk and wait at the red light like everyone else.

I don't see your point...he had a green light and was moving with traffic correctly. He wasn't going through a red light like some bikers do.

 

[Natedog]

I'd have been hit along time ago if I would have stuck to that. The driver's around here don't look anyways and just plain don't care. So, it's actually safer on the sidewalk, well at least in my city it is. Plus, I was going from one part of the trail to the other and had no other way to get there other than the cross walk.

x2, when I ride on surface streets it's crazy...nobody cares, nobody looks or anything...fawk everybody out of their way. :twisted: I stick to the street as I'm supposed to, but some places I ride on the sidewalk (at slower speed) and yield to pedestrians because as OTHGbronco82 said you'll get hit by cars if you don't. :twisted::evil:

I don't see your point...he had a green light and was moving with traffic correctly. He wasn't going through a red light like some bikers do.

"thumbsup"

EDIT: We also have reverse from the car nazis, we have a few bicycle nazis who insist in riding slowly in the automobile traffic lane and don't get out of the way because fawk everybody else they are all who matter. :/

 

[hpiguy]

Did some riding over the holiday weekend with my niece and nephew, including his first real MTB trail, and my first trip around a pump track. The pump track was a blast! Getting to be involved with things like this with them makes me want to move down there. Found some challenging technical trails at Big Creek also, good stuff!

 

[canadianbacon]

Still putting kilometers on 'er, she's holding up great

Started at km marker 20

Finally got a good floor pump too, old one I had was leaking. I got a Blackburn Air Tower, lifetime warranty on it. My next purchase probably next pay) is a pair of padded shorts to wear under my regular shorts.

 

[rupps5]

New frame day

 

[hpiguy]

Ooooh, nice!

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[EeePee]

Meh

 

[Chiphead]

I love my Turner. I have a 2013 Burner. "thumbsup"

 

[canadianbacon]

What's the reason for one chainstay having different geometry than the other?

 

[rupps5]

To get out of the way of the chain

 

[gdb85]

So far, it seems to be the good all-rounder I've been searching for. Lots of traction so I have a lot more confidence on descents. But you gotta just trust the bike because there's not as much feel in the front-end like my other bikes. I'm used to making tiny corrections all the time with my old bikes but with this one is more or less "point-n-shoot". Seems to climb about as good as the Trek did too.

LBS & Specialized had a "Demo Ride" at one of the parks we ride a couple Wed ago. They had a bunch of models out there and I rode this one, all be it the "Comp" edition. I'm pretty sure,... well certain I'm selling the RIP 9. This thing is just a bad ass trail bike! "thumbsup"

Anybody interested in a 3 month old NINER with less than 60 miles, lol? (medium)...3000.00 + shpg

 

[Natedog]

Geometry is not altered, but the chainstay location is.

To get out of the way of the chain

Zachhary, no mo chainslap. I'd still wrap that puppy because it would be a shame to chip that sweet frame. "thumbsup"

 

[Natedog]

LBS & Specialized had a "Demo Ride" at one of the parks we ride a couple Wed ago. They had a bunch of models out there and I rode this one, all be it the "Comp" edition. I'm pretty sure,... well certain I'm selling the RIP 9. This thing is just a bad ass trail bike! "thumbsup"

Anybody interested in a 3 month old NINER with less than 60 miles, lol? (medium)...3000.00 + shpg

Which one did you buy???

 

[gdb85]

Which one did you buy???

RIP 9, 3-Star build, Black/silver, full aluminum, complete XT, Stans ZTR wheelset, Rockshox Revelation Fork & Monarch shock.